1.   Akemi Ishibashi remembers the first time she walked into a sushi shop as a child.

2.   The big tuna has been bought by a temporary partnership of two jobbers, Inaryo and Ishimiya, purveyors to only the swankiest hotels and sushi shops.

3.   The normal hustle and bustle of the sushi shops, fish stalls and appliance stores that ring the wholesale fish market was somewhat subdued Monday.

4.   There are also sushi shops and one of many old traditional temples.

5.   In the restaurants, customers sit around a bar like in an traditional sushi shop.

6.   Similar systems have been set up for more than a dozen eateries around the nation, but Kura Sushi is the only sushi shop so far.

7.   The government quickly toughened its sanitary standards and inspections of everything from sushi shops and public school cafeterias to swimming pools and lavatories.